Comments on: Bottle Radio Is Beverage Ad

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:58:11 +0000

Myles: I’ve been trying to figure that out all day!

By: George

George — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:38:15 +0000

I’ve got a copy of a book that’s a bunch of radio related reprints from Popular Mechanics. It seems that every other article is building a radio into something that’s not a radio. Kitchen cannisters: flour, sugar, radio. A radio frying pan to hang on the wall, radio in a pole lamp, radio in a walking stick (I think that one’s on here someplace), radio in a doll, and on and on.

Oh, almost forgot, a radio built on to a postcard you could mail. Like most of the miniature radio projects it was small; until you added 1 1/2 volt and 45 volt batteries, earphones, and a 50 foot wire antenna and ground connections.

The holy grail of home construction projects was a small radio that ran a speaker and didn’t need an external antenna, and preferably not super-heterodyne — hobbyists were terrified of alignment procedures.

By: Myles

Myles — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:05:43 +0000

I wonder who the “large beverage manufacturer” with the “well known drink” might be?

By: Al Bear

Al Bear — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:16:30 +0000

Tacky radios are older than I thought.

By: Neil Russell

Neil Russell — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:22:33 +0000

My dad brought one of these home to repair once, must have been in the late 60s.
I’m pretty sure it was a Zenith radio inside, maybe a Philco. That doesn’t help much does it?
That thing was the coolest Coca Cola premium I ever saw, it was made from a thick maroon bakelite material.
I had pretty much forgotten about being in the presence of it until I saw this, thanks Charlie for posting!!